[mamed]

I hear this is an issue on 6.5.30 so I was directed to install the dpsnx system from .22. This didn’t work for me and I installed a good version but it seems to be missing the dpsnx files for illustrator https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/9...ar.gz/file

Where do the exec bin pres files go? Pp01 installer failed.

[hamei]

I hear this is an issue on 6.5.30 so I was directed to install the dpsnx system from .22. This didn’t work for me and I installed a good version but it seems to be missing the dpsnx files for illustrator https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/9...ar.gz/file

Where do the exec bin pres files go? Pp01 installer failed.

There is actually a better solution, which I kinda forgot how because this was twenty years ago but can't be that hard if I managed ... the situation is, at one point Adobe pulled all the Display Postscript licenses from everyone.  Not just SGI; Sun, HP and IBM too. I do not know if they were just being assholes or if there was something in Display Postscript that was licensed from someone else, which got pulled on them. No one ever tells the truth about these matters.

The dpsnx file was a workaround so that programs such as Framemaker that depended on Display Postscript could still work. But a better solution is to go back a little farther and re-install Display Postscript from an earlier Irix. Then all your dps programs will work, not just one or two. There were several, and some were useful.

DPS is in the earlier Irixes and works fine with dot-thirty. It's installable all by itself. Plus you can thumb your nose at Adobe a little :-)

While you're in there, you can get rid of a bunch of shit that had to be done for this same reason - the stupid truetype fonts and so on. Type 1 fonts are actually better, much. That whole super-system where they buried the good stuff under a bunch of crap is worth the effort to remove. One of my goals when younger was to create a dot-thirty overlay that was just the fixes, not the steps backwards. That wouldn't be that hard, and more useful than some of the things people do with Irix, sigh.

p.s. It might have had something to do with Apple or perhaps NeXT. They were involved with creating Display Postscript and were in big trouble at that time, they could have sold it to someone who thought they'd make big money extorting companies or something, don't know. Motif was sort of like that. Bankers suck. But it sounds plausible so let's go with that :-)

[mamed]

I got it sorted the dpsnx module wasnt installing for some reason in the /usr/adobe there should be a file called dpsnx 2.1.1 and mine wasnt there after reinstalling a few times I put the folders in the places they needed to go /shared/pres /usr/adobe /usr/bin and it worked fyi: a lot of repos with the tars for photoshop dont actually have the dpsnx files so when I got an actually not crap one from gijoe which included them I was eventually with his help able to get it sorted. also install 6.5.22 dp.eoe on overlay disc 2 of 3 and set rules to on so you can override conflicts as .22 mods wont install on .30

[indigofan]

I got it sorted the dpsnx module wasnt installing for some reason in the /usr/adobe there should be a file called dpsnx 2.1.1 and mine wasnt there after reinstalling a few times I put the folders in the places they needed to go /shared/pres /usr/adobe /usr/bin and it worked fyi: a lot of repos with  the tars for photoshop dont actually have the dpsnx files so when I got an actually not crap one from gijoe which included them I was eventually with his help able to get it sorted. also install 6.5.22 dp.eoe on overlay disc 2 of 3 and set rules to on so you can override conflicts as .22 mods wont install on .30

Awesome, thanks! For others, in Inst - File - Set Preferences - rules override = Set to ON - click start to Install

You will also need to install dps.eoe from the 6.5 Applications CD to get it to work.

[mamed]

I got it sorted the dpsnx module wasnt installing for some reason in the /usr/adobe there should be a file called dpsnx 2.1.1 and mine wasnt there after reinstalling a few times I put the folders in the places they needed to go /shared/pres /usr/adobe /usr/bin and it worked fyi: a lot of repos with  the tars for photoshop dont actually have the dpsnx files so when I got an actually not crap one from gijoe which included them I was eventually with his help able to get it sorted. also install 6.5.22 dp.eoe on overlay disc 2 of 3 and set rules to on so you can override conflicts as .22 mods wont install on .30

Awesome, thanks! For others, in Inst - File - Set Preferences - rules override = Set to ON - click start to Install

You will also need to install dps.eoe from the 6.5 Applications CD to get it to work.

I believe I did say dps.eoe is on overlay 2 not applications

[indigofan]

I got it sorted the dpsnx module wasnt installing for some reason in the /usr/adobe there should be a file called dpsnx 2.1.1 and mine wasnt there after reinstalling a few times I put the folders in the places they needed to go /shared/pres /usr/adobe /usr/bin and it worked fyi: a lot of repos with  the tars for photoshop dont actually have the dpsnx files so when I got an actually not crap one from gijoe which included them I was eventually with his help able to get it sorted. also install 6.5.22 dp.eoe on overlay disc 2 of 3 and set rules to on so you can override conflicts as .22 mods wont install on .30

Awesome, thanks! For others, in Inst - File - Set Preferences - rules override = Set to ON - click start to Install

You will also need to install dps.eoe from the 6.5 Applications CD to get it to work.

I believe I did say dps.eoe is on overlay 2 not applications

It was the dependencies to the 6.5 Applications CD that I needed to apply to the 6.22 version, without it, it would not start and just hang.

[mamed]

I got it sorted the dpsnx module wasnt installing for some reason in the /usr/adobe there should be a file called dpsnx 2.1.1 and mine wasnt there after reinstalling a few times I put the folders in the places they needed to go /shared/pres /usr/adobe /usr/bin and it worked fyi: a lot of repos with  the tars for photoshop dont actually have the dpsnx files so when I got an actually not crap one from gijoe which included them I was eventually with his help able to get it sorted. also install 6.5.22 dp.eoe on overlay disc 2 of 3 and set rules to on so you can override conflicts as .22 mods wont install on .30

Awesome, thanks! For others, in Inst - File - Set Preferences - rules override = Set to ON - click start to Install

You will also need to install dps.eoe from the 6.5 Applications CD to get it to work.

I believe I did say dps.eoe is on overlay 2 not applications

It was the dependencies to the 6.5 Applications CD that I needed to apply to the 6.22 version, without it, it would not start and just hang.

6.22 is a bit old it’s 6.5.22

[hamei]

If you install the Display Postscript system you don't need dpsnx. In fact you don't want it, because it can interfere with the proper communication between the display system and the programs.

Just a little info for people who may come across this some day.

[mamed]

If you install the Display Postscript system you don't need dpsnx. In fact you don't want it, because it can interfere with the proper communication between the display system and the programs.

Just a little info for people who may come across this some day.

I’ve never had an issue illustrator won’t run without it display postscript is the dpsnx

[hamei]

I’ve never had an issue illustrator won’t run without it display postscript is the dpsnx

This is not correct. DPSNX is a shim, or replacement to make postscript-dependent programs run when display postscript was removed. There's a lot of programs that use display postscript, several samples on one of the cd's. They won't run without the real thing installed.

DPSNX != display postscript. You are mistaken.